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My first invitation to a Samsung event, courtesy of PR manager Daniel, after previously reviewing the YP-K3 and VP-MX10. The Samsung Touch Event let us get hands-on with a range of Samsung products in a relaxed, try-it-yourself setting.
I was invited to Showcase Nokia 2009 at ZIRCA, Clarke Quay, where Nokia launched the E55, E75, N86 8MP, 6710 Navigator and 6720 Classic. The E75 is essentially an E51 clone with an added slide-out full QWERTY keypad.
I ordered my olive green WordPress t-shirt from the WordPress Shop, run by Indigo Clothing. Placed on 6th February 2009, it arrived yesterday, the 14th, by airmail, about twelve days later. It cost GBP £16.50, roughly S$35.80 including postage.
Li Xiang baked butter and cornflake cookies for me, and I made her a card on the computer plus a heart-shaped candy from Sticky. We exchanged gifts yesterday since today we were up early for her friend's ROM.
Nokia has announced its Comes With Music range for Singapore. The revolutionary digital music offer will be available on the Nokia 5800, 5320 and 5220 XpressMusic devices, as well as the N96, N85 and N79 multimedia computers.
If you bought Street Fighter IV for Xbox 360, you're entitled to a free exclusive calendar. Redeem it at Challenger Funan or Best Denki VivoCity from 12th to 28th February 2009, bringing along the game and your receipt.
I pre-ordered Street Fighter IV for my Xbox 360 a couple of weeks ago at Mega Multimedia. The staff said pre-ordering then got me S$5 off the retail price, which seemed a fair deal.
I was invited to a one-hour Nokia Comes With Music session at Nokia's Singapore office. The service arrives here soon, and the much-anticipated Nokia 5800 XpressMusic lands before month's end. Comes With Music bundles unlimited track downloads with the phone.
Derrick invited me to the first Lenovo Blogger Night at 7atenine in the Esplanade Mall. The food and drinks were good, with no big crowd, around 20 of us, roughly half bloggers and the rest from Text 100.
SingTel will bring the first Google Android phone to Asia, Singapore included: the HTC Dream. SingTel and HTC today unveiled the first Android device for the region, marking an exciting milestone as the new mobile platform finally reaches our shores.
Frustrated with the sluggish, forever-lagging Windows Live Hotmail? I certainly am. Here's a tutorial on forwarding your incoming Hotmail emails to Gmail: in your Hotmail inbox, go to Options, then More Options, and set up Mobile Alerts to enable forwarding.
Time to mention the .sg domain I've owned for about two years, lc.sg. On the front end it's my personal RSS aggregator, while on the back end it doubles as my own URL shortener for quick, tidy links.
Some minor updates bump lesterchan.net to version 3.30. I combined five JavaScript files, namely TW-Sack, ThickBox, DBX, the DBX key file and my own script, into one, and minified the CSS and JavaScript using YUI Compressor for faster loading.
In a blink, this year's Lunar New Year is almost over. Tomorrow is the seventh day, Ren Ri, or everybody's birthday. The celebration usually lasts fifteen days, and honestly it's starting to feel a little repetitive and boring.
It's my second week of school; tutorials begin next week and projects are already rolling in, so it'll get busy soon. That sums up my school life so far. I've also been adding JavaScript to my WordPress plugins lately.
Ivy invited me to SingTel's new flagship shop at JP2, B1-98/99. We got a store tour and an introduction to its unique features, including four external interactive displays, two on each side, for browsing on the go.
Last Wednesday, the Apple Store Singapore ran a one-day shopping event with online discounts, though they were pretty paltry, just S$20 off an iPod nano. Still, S$20 off beats nothing, so I grabbed a Belkin charger.
I flew to Jakarta for one day to attend Sugih's wedding. My Valuair flight left on 9th January 2009 at 1.35pm, returning the next day at 3.20pm. His wedding was on the 9th at 7pm at Hotel Mulia Senayan.
These are the modules I'm taking this coming semester, starting 12th January 2009: Control, Audit and Security of IS, Service Systems, IT and Supply Chain Management, and Probability and Statistics. A solid four-module load to kick off the new term.
The first .com domain ever registered was symbolics.com. Back then registering a domain cost far more than today's US$10 a year, so most names on the list belonged to multinational corporations. Surprisingly, Microsoft.com isn't among the earliest registrations.
My December 2008 site traffic stats: 10,101,880 hits, 691,791 pages and 170,341 visits from 137,608 unique sites, with about 42.5 million KBytes transferred over the month. A strong close to the year, with traffic firmly in the millions.
I'm back from Taiwan! After the guided tour from 15th to 21st December 2008, we spent the remaining twelve days, until 1st January, free and easy. Rather than blog everything in detail, I'll let the pictures do the talking.